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Meaning of “educating the ice”The metaphor makes sense in the other direction, e.g. "throwing someone in at the deep end". Except that he's reverse engineering the metaphor, using education to refer to submersion instead of the other way around. I don't think it's as bad as this answer suggests, but I do think you're mostly right about the character (or the author - my money's on the author tbh) trying to be semantically inventive.

Is it rude to refer to janitors as 'floor people'?@HRIATEXP: The issue is more that you are inferring that it reveals how your manager views them. It only reveals how your manager refers to them, and that's meaningfully distinct. As a software developer, I make similar references to group of people such as "support people", "database people", ... and it wouldn't make sense for me to use their explicit title because who says that the group of people I'm referring to all have the exact same title? Whether you're a senior database architect or a junior database admin, you're both "database people" to non-database people.

A word for delight at someone else's failure?Note that sadism entails inflicting pain/humiliation to the target, it's not just a matter of seeing it. If you're not the one causing the pain/humiliation to someone, but it does amuse you, then schadenfreude/epicaricacy is more applicable.

Idiom for 'person who gets violent when drunk"@ShadowRanger: I consider making hurtful comments as a lack of manners. There's no real crime, it's just a matter of not being as nice as you could be. Especially if the hurtful statements are factually correct, I don't really see another way of describing it other than failing at etiquette/manners.

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Idiom for 'person who gets violent when drunk"Belligerent isn't necessarily violent (but it is the closest approximation to it that you can have without being violent). Belligerent people can also just try to instigate a fight but never become violent unless provoked (but of course it's equally possibly that they do resort to violence by themselves eventually)/

English word for “product of tinkering”@Arthur: When you MacGyver something, It's be more apt (imo) to say that you created something from parts that you wouldn't expect to be used like that. Whether or not it's an actual fix to the solution is a different matter. If you create a flamethrower out of beans and a leather shoe, that's impressive MacGyvering. If you created it because you needed a haircut, that's... not a good solution, but you did still MacGyver a flamethrower.

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What is the meaning of the term “town hottie”?@JanusBahsJacquet Traits are usually a spectrum, not a binary state. It makes little sense for only one person to be considered attractive, in any size of community. Tastes differ and not everyone will agree on who is more attractive than who. But the town hottie is predominantly agreed to be predominantly the most attractive. The same applies to drunk/idiot. You can argue anyone who is drunk at one point to be a drunk. The town drunk isn't necessarily always drunk, but he is the person who is most often drunk, on the spectrum of alcohol drinkers. And similar for idiocy.

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What is the meaning of the term “town hottie”?@Lambie Are you a straight male? Not to imply anything, I (as a straight male) wouldn't use it either. But my wife does use it, and so does my gay male friend. Because it makes more sense for them to refer to men as "hot".